Labuschagne solidified his place in the Australian setup during the 2019 Ashes at Lord\u2019s, famously becoming cricket\u2019s first-ever concussion substitute. That moment marked the beginning of a prolific phase for the South African-born batter, who went on to average an impressive 63.43 after 14 Tests and held the No.1 spot in the ICC Test rankings for six months starting December 2021.<\/p>\n
However, the current World Test Championship cycle has been more challenging for Labuschagne, with the right-hander averaging 28.33 with a lone century. To adapt to British conditions and rediscover his form ahead of the WTC Final, he has been turning out for Glamorgan\u2014his county stint proving to be something of a second home for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love playing with the guys here, they are close friends, and I love the environment at the club,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe benefit of having a relationship with the club for six years is that you have the perks of being able to call the director of cricket and say: \u2018this is what it looks like, is there a chance we can line this up\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout that relationship, there might be some hesitancy, or you might not get someone in for two games. But that\u2019s the benefit of the long-term commitment I have shown over the last six years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labuschagne solidified his place in the Australian setup during the 2019 Ashes at Lord\u2019s, famously becoming cricket\u2019s first-ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[743,15034,1406,15036,64657,64656,69119,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-743","9":"tag-app-stream","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-highlighted-news","12":"tag-icc-world-test-championship-23-25","13":"tag-icc-world-test-championship-final","14":"tag-marnus-labuschagne-06-22-1994","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114642231342064350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}